Cloudflare
Senior Systems Engineer, Basin Platform
$185K–$266K
In-Office +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Location
- In-Office
Austin, TX, United States
London, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States
Seattle, WA - Experience
- Minimum 5 years working with distributed systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- Any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and operate Cloudflare Basin Catalog and Basin SQL, including distributed storage and database services for large-scale queries over R2 data.
What you'll do
- Own software from design through release across the software stack.
- Design distributed data systems, optimize storage performance, and develop APIs for data products.
- Build services that support Basin Catalog metadata and maintenance, and Basin SQL queries.
What they ask for
- Minimum 5 years of experience working with distributed systems.
- Experience building and managing high volume software applications.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
- Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language.
Nice to have
- Experience building and managing a large scale data storage platform.
- Experience in low-latency real time environments or non-garbage collected languages such as Rust or C++.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD annual salary (base salary); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
JavaScript, Typescript, Rust, C++, Go, Linux, UNIX, R2
AI focus
The posting describes AI as a partner for solving problems and shipping faster, but does not specify AI-focused job duties.
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